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Category Archives: Actors
Best Headline Of the Year …
and certainly one of my all-time favorites: O’Malley Hearts Renner. It is so nice I have found a valid outlet for my celebrity crushes. But if Renner ever contacts me, I will batton down the hatches. I have learned my … Continue reading
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“It’s Not So Easy, That Role. It’s A Role For a Professional.” – Sean Connery on James Bond
I just finished Oriana Fallaci’s hugely entertaining THE EGOISTS: SIXTEEN INTERVIEWS, interviews with 16 prominent people in the 1960s, from Nguyen Cao Ky (Prime Minister of South Vietnam for 2 years) to Alfred Hitchcock. Weird book, obviously. You have to … Continue reading
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Jeremy Renner: The Sociopath/The Hero
My new piece on Jeremy Renner just went up at Fandor. Go check it out! An actor with a big range, although it may not be apparent yet in the roles he’s getting. He can go antisocial, he can go … Continue reading
“I am really happy the doc is even getting out on DVD. Y’know, for a forty minute short to come out on DVD is not an every day occurrence.”
A wonderful interview with Richard Shepard, director of the HBO documentary I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale. Five films. Is it possible that John Cazale only made five films? I have written before (here and elsewhere) about the … Continue reading
John Garfield in We Were Strangers (1949)
John Huston’s gripping (and very sweaty) drama We Were Strangers tells of the fight of Cuban revolutionaries to take back their country, aided by an American (born in Cuba, forced to go into exile), played by John Garfield. Jennifer Jones … Continue reading
The Original “It Girl”: Clara Bow in It (1927)
In 1927, novelist and author of erotica, Elinor Glyn, popularized the term “It”, “it” being sex appeal, sexuality. Because Glyn was so respectable (she looks like a society matron, with braids coiled around her head, and long flowing gowns) her … Continue reading
Cause They Are Women
Oh, this clip, this clip. As Mitchell put it in a comment on Facebook: “Gowns and grownups.” Exactly. Speaking of Cher, I took this photo 2 days ago in Times Square and am counting the days until it opens.
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973); Dir. Peter Yates
A.O. Scott reviews this bleak 1973 crime drama (which is really more of a thoughtful character study than anything else). The details in this film are exquisite, perfect: the cars, the sklyines, the empty bars, the Bruins game, the slush … Continue reading